US:Relatives of murder victim Ron Goldman won a court order yesterday seizing any money OJ Simpson earns for lending his name and likeness to a football video game with a fictional team called the Assassins and a knife-wielding mascot.
The legal victory was part of an effort by Goldman's estate to satisfy a $33.5 million (€24 million) judgment won against Simpson in a wrongful death suit brought against him in the 1994 stabbing deaths of Goldman and Simpson's ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson.
The former star running back was acquitted of criminal charges in 1995 at the end of a murder trial but was found legally responsible for their deaths by a civil court two years later.
Simpson has maintained his innocence and says he will never pay the jury award voluntarily.
Last week, Goldman's estate, led by his father Fred Goldman, secured rights to Simpson's aborted book, If I Did It, containing his hypothetical first-person account of the murders, after a legal fight with the now-bankrupt firm set up to collect Simpson's reported $1 million advance.